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Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon's marriage broke down after 18 years

The marriage wasn’t always doomed, it was suggested. The documentary described how the married couple renovated apartment 1A at Kensington Palace with a sum of £80,000 from the government.

“There were gaping holes in the floor, it was such a mess.” It is said the couple did many of the renovations together.

The home was famously the centre of the couple’s famously celebrity studded parties. "The Princess loved it. She was a great pianist."

“They had parties with all the A list people around: Frank Sinatra, Peter Sellers, Elizabeth Taylor – anyone who was anybody,” said the documentary narrator.

However, the narrator described that everything wasn’t as it seemed inside the glamorous relationship.

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Princess Margaret: She married Lord Snowdon in 1960

Lord Snowdon and Princess Margaret: RARE photographs uncovered

Fri, January 13, 2017

English photographer, Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, commonly known as Lord Snowdon passed away aged 86. He was married to Princess Margaret from 1960 to 1978, we look back on their marriage through pictures